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A. T. MULLER.

Corset Clasp.

No. 241,052. Patented May 3,1881.

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@Ntra STATES AUGUST T. MLLER,

PATENT Glance.

OF PARIS, FRANCE.

CO RS ET-CLASP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 241,052, dated May 3, 1881.

Application led March 2S), 1831.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST THOPHILE MLLER, mechanic, ot' Paris, France, have invented certain Improvements in Clasps for Corsets, of which the following is a specifica tion.

My invention relates to that ela-ss ot' clasps v which are used for fastening together the fronts a front View oiiny improved corset-clasps. Fig.

2 is a side view, showing a part of one of the clasp-sections, and Fig. 3, a moditication.

The device consists ofthe two steel husks A A', the formerhavingaseries of studs, ce, adapted to the eye-clasps B upon the husk A'. In each eye-clasp there is au opening enlarged at the inner end, so as to receive the head ot' the stud, and contracted at the outer end for the neck ot' the stud, which in clasps of the 0rdinary construction can only he released by carrying it into the enlarged portion. To avoid this I make each eye-claspB in two parts, one part, e, being' riveted to the husk A', the other part, c', being secured to or forming part of a slide, C, which is adapted to move upon the husk A', and secured thereto by rivets b passing through slots in the slide.

When the parts are in the position shown in (No model.) Patented in France February 15,1879.

Fig. l the eye-clasps present the same shape as in the Ordinar)r clasps; but the studs may he introduced and secured hyrstmoving` the slide upward to open the eye-clasp and then downward to secure the stud.

Different appliances may be used for opening the eye-clasp-as, for instance, cams, levers, Ste.

In Fig. l I have shown a pinion, d, turned between studs s on the husk A' by means of' a leverhandle, f, the pinion engaging with a rack, t, upon the slide C.

Instead ot making one jaw slide in respect to the other, thejaws e maybe pivoted, or may otherwise be adjustable, any suitable appliances being used for effecting' the adjustment, as in Fig. 25.

I claim- 1. The corset-buskA', provided with divided eye-clasps, one section ot' each clasp being fixed to the husk and the other section heilig connected to be operated by a slide, 0,011 the bnsk, adapted to adjust all the said movable sections ot' the clasps, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the husk A, having studs a, and the husk A', having fixed eyeclasp sections c, and a slide, (l, having fixed clasp-sections e', and appliances for adjusting the slide, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two suhscribing witnesses.

AUGUST THOPIIILE MLLER.

Witnesses:

BRUN A. CADET, P. Smear. 

